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Subclinical atherosclerosis and genetic risk markers in healthy offspring of patients with premature myocardial infarction.
Minerva cardioangiologica - 1 Apr 2011
Barra S, Scala S, Cuomo V, Guarini P, Colaizzo D, Margaglione M, Materazzi C, Vitagliano G, Gaeta G, Faiella A
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AIM: Healthy young subjects with parental history of premature myocardial infarction (PHPMI) might constitute a privileged population for the study of genetic risk markers (GRM) for atherosclerosis. Aim of this study was to evaluate which, if any, GRM atherosclerosis-associated in previous studies has increased prevalence in a selected population. METHODS: Twenty-four healthy young subjects (12 males and 12...
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